2 Kings 13:20 Elisha died and was buried. Now Moabite raiders used to enter the country every spring.

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New International Version
Elisha died and was buried. Now Moabite raiders used to enter the country every spring.

English Standard Version
So Elisha died, and they buried him. Now bands of Moabites used to invade the land in the spring of the year.

New American Standard Bible
Elisha died, and they buried him. Now the bands of the Moabites would invade the land in the spring of the year.

King James Bible
And Elisha died, and they buried him. And the bands of the Moabites invaded the land at the coming in of the year.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Then Elisha died and was buried. Now Moabite raiders used to come into the land in the spring of the year.

International Standard Version
Later, Elisha died and was buried. Now at that time, various Moabite marauders had been invading the land each spring.

American Standard Version
And Elisha died, and they buried him. Now the bands of the Moabites invaded the land at the coming in of the year.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And Eliseus died, and they buried him. And the rovers from Moab came into the land the same year.

Darby Bible Translation
And Elisha died, and they buried him. And the bands of the Moabites invaded the land at the coming in of the year.

Young's Literal Translation
And Elisha dieth, and they bury him, and troops of Moab come in to the land, at the coming in of the year,

Cross References

2 Kings 3:7
And he went and sent to Jehoshaphat the king of Judah, saying, The king of Moab has rebelled against me: will you go with me against Moab to battle? And he said, I will go up: I am as you are, my people as your people, and my horses as your horses.

2 Kings 5:2
And the Syrians had gone out by companies, and had brought away captive out of the land of Israel a little maid; and she waited on Naaman's wife.

2 Kings 24:2
And the LORD sent against him bands of the Chaldees, and bands of the Syrians, and bands of the Moabites, and bands of the children of Ammon, and sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to the word of the LORD, which he spoke by his servants the prophets.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

13:20-25 God has many ways to chastise a provoking people. Trouble comes sometimes from that point whence we least feared it. The mention of this invasion on the death of Elisha, shows that the removal of God's faithful prophets is a presage of coming judgments. His dead body was a means of giving life to another dead body. This miracle was a confirmation of his prophecies. And it may have reference to Christ, by whose death and burial, the grave is made a safe and happy passage to life to all believers. Jehoash was successful against the Syrians, just as often as he had struck the ground with the arrows, then a stop was put to his victories. Many have repented, when too late, of distrusts and the straitness of their desires.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

20, 21. Elisha died—He had enjoyed a happier life than Elijah, as he possessed a milder character, and bore a less hard commission. His rough garment was honored even at the court.

coming in of the year—that is, the spring, the usual season of beginning campaigns in ancient times. Predatory bands from Moab generally made incursions at that time on the lands of Israel. The bearers of a corpse, alarmed by the appearance of one of these bands, hastily deposited, as they passed that way, their load in Elisha's sepulchre, which might be easily done by removing the stone at the mouth of the cave. According to the Jewish and Eastern custom, his body, as well as that of the man who was miraculously restored, was not laid in a coffin, but only swathed; so that the bodies could be brought into contact, and the object of the miracle was to stimulate the king's and people of Israel's faith in the still unaccomplished predictions of Elisha respecting the war with the Syrians. Accordingly the historian forthwith records the historical fulfilment of the prediction (2Ki 13:22-25), in the defeat of the enemy, in the recovery of the cities that had been taken, and their restoration to the kingdom of Israel.